And not only did the Giants lose to the Cards, but the Niners absolutely got their asses handed to them. Yet another reason to hate Joe Buck--not only did I have to endure 6 hours of listening him yesterday, but it was 6 hours of seeing my teams suck almost as much as Joe Buck sucks.

Cyberluddite:And not only did the Giants lose to the Cards, but the Niners absolutely got their asses handed to them. Yet another reason to hate Joe Buck--not only did I have to endure 6 hours of listening him yesterday, but it was 6 hours of seeing my teams suck almost as much as Joe Buck sucks.

That's how I felt listening to Dick Stockton call the Redskins game yesterday after he called the Nats game Friday. Minnesota starts clawing back from a deficit of more than two touchdowns and I can just see the world about to crumble around me. Fortunately, RG3's karma > Stockton's.

Lando Lincoln:I know most of you guys are going to completely disagree with me, but I really don't mind Joe Buck as an announcer. He's just there.

Yes, I'm going to completely disagree with you. And he never even pissed in my shoes, so I don't have any personal axe to grind against him, other than that he sucks.

OK, in fairness, he isn't that bad as a football announcer, but he (along with his partner, Tim McCarver, who clearly took too many foul balls off the side of his head) is the absolutely worst baseball announcer there is. I cannot stand hearing that motherfarker shooting off his mouth in any baseball game, and he completely ruins the broadcast of every game he announces.

Cyberluddite:Lando Lincoln: I know most of you guys are going to completely disagree with me, but I really don't mind Joe Buck as an announcer. He's just there.

Yes, I'm going to completely disagree with you. And he never even pissed in my shoes, so I don't have any personal axe to grind against him, other than that he sucks.

OK, in fairness, he isn't that bad as a football announcer, but he (along with his partner, Tim McCarver, who clearly took too many foul balls off the side of his head) is the absolutely worst baseball announcer there is. I cannot stand hearing that motherfarker shooting off his mouth in any baseball game, and he completely ruins the broadcast of every game he announces.

I don't hate him, but one point... its probably much easier to do play by play during a football game. There's a lot less dead time where you have to vamp with the color guy(s).

Cyberluddite:And not only did the Giants lose to the Cards, but the Niners absolutely got their asses handed to them. Yet another reason to hate Joe Buck--not only did I have to endure 6 hours of listening him yesterday, but it was 6 hours of seeing my teams suck almost as much as Joe Buck sucks.

I feel legitimately bad for San Francisco fans who had to endure that ordeal yesterday.

And I love the fact that Fox pretended we were all waiting breathlessly as Joe Buck's police-escorted trolley made its way through the streets of San Francisco. Seriously, nobody gives a shiat.

Cyberluddite:Lando Lincoln: I know most of you guys are going to completely disagree with me, but I really don't mind Joe Buck as an announcer. He's just there.

Yes, I'm going to completely disagree with you. And he never even pissed in my shoes, so I don't have any personal axe to grind against him, other than that he sucks.

OK, in fairness, he isn't that bad as a football announcer, but he (along with his partner, Tim McCarver, who clearly took too many foul balls off the side of his head) is the absolutely worst baseball announcer there is. I cannot stand hearing that motherfarker shooting off his mouth in any baseball game, and he completely ruins the broadcast of every game he announces.

I cannot watch a baseball game with Tim McCarver. If the Twins ever stop sucking and make it to a playoff game called by McCarver, I would listen to a radio broadcast before suffering through him.

Cyberluddite:Lando Lincoln: I know most of you guys are going to completely disagree with me, but I really don't mind Joe Buck as an announcer. He's just there.

Yes, I'm going to completely disagree with you. And he never even pissed in my shoes, so I don't have any personal axe to grind against him, other than that he sucks.

OK, in fairness, he isn't that bad as a football announcer, but he (along with his partner, Tim McCarver, who clearly took too many foul balls off the side of his head) is the absolutely worst baseball announcer there is. I cannot stand hearing that motherfarker shooting off his mouth in any baseball game, and he completely ruins the broadcast of every game he announces.

I once heard Tim McCarver say that the fundamentals of baseball were more fundamental than those in other sports. That was the last straw for me, now if he's on a broadcast I just mute it

Cyberluddite:(along with his partner, Tim McCarver, who clearly took too many foul balls off the side of his head) is the absolutely worst baseball announcer there is. I cannot stand hearing that motherfarker shooting off his mouth in any baseball game, and he completely ruins the broadcast of every game he announces.

I can't figure out who McCarver appeals to, but they keep putting him behind a mic so there has to be a rationale for it. He calls everything wrong, and when he gets in to some weird anecdote about a play that occurred 40 years ago he occasionally just trails off and never finishes the story or tie it in to what's happening on the field. Enduring McCarver is one of the few things I can appreciate Buck for.

At least with Buck, he's so nasally-monotone throughout the game he can be tuned out...in fact, you almost can't help but tune him out, as after about the third inning/first quarter of a game he's calling, you literally can't tell his voice apart from your A/C unit running in the background.

McCarver is liable to saying something so asinine at any given point however, there's just no escaping.

bglove25:I think what I most miss is the John Smoltz, Cal Ripken pairing in the NY-Bal. series. That was awesome, two smart, personable players informing the audience and each other. Great stuff.

A part of me wonders how Mike Mussina would be calling games. He has the intelligence (both with baseball and just in general), but he also always came off like a smarmy, aloof twat during his playing days, that I think he might be a dick in the booth.

I can see him saying something like "Verlander, you dumbass, that was NOT the count and position to throw a 2-seamer. I can't believe this sh*t" on air without any care in the world about how it comes off.

Yanks_RSJ:bglove25: I think what I most miss is the John Smoltz, Cal Ripken pairing in the NY-Bal. series. That was awesome, two smart, personable players informing the audience and each other. Great stuff.

Yeah, nothing like a Yankee-hater and a former Oriole calling Yanks-Os.

Hey, if Boomer Wells and Chuck Knoblach were as good in the booth as those two, I would be cool with it. In fact, the only notice I had of any relationship with the Yankees were all the references to 1996, when both guys lost to the Yankees. So, what was there to complain about? I was more into the speculation about pitches and locations, how game events effect player thinking, you know, color analyst stuff.

Yanks_RSJ:And I love the fact that Fox pretended we were all waiting breathlessly as Joe Buck's police-escorted trolley made its way through the streets of San Francisco. Seriously, nobody gives a shiat.

He should have dumped a glass of water on McCarver's head when he got to the booth.

hp6sa:I cannot watch a baseball game with Tim McCarver. If the Twins ever stop sucking and make it to a playoff game called by McCarver, I would listen to a radio broadcast before suffering through him.

Believe me, I've tried--especially back in 2010, when the Giants were in the World Series and I had to endure listening to Buck and McCarver. Unfortunately, all broadcasts (not just sports) on my local cable TV provider (farking Comcast/Xfiniti/whatever in the fark they call it now) is at least about 5 seconds behind live action, and even several seconds behind other cable TV feeds. So, for instance, when I've been talking on the phone to my mom (who lives in another town, with another cable provider) when we're both watching the game, she knows what's just happened several seconds before I do. And of course, if I try to listen to the radio broadcast while watching the game on TV, what the radio announcers are describing is several seconds ahead of what's being shown on my TV.

If it was the other way around and the radio broadcast was delayed behind the TV image, it would be easy--I could just use my DVR to pause the TV feed for a couple of seconds until it synched up perfectly with the radio, but I have no way to pause the radio feed to synch up with the TV, dammit. Someone posted a link here in 2010 to a website that described how to synch it up--it might've been this--but it seemed like too much of a pain in the ass to accomplish.

Us Cards fans were really spoiled having the NLCS on TBS last year and only having to deal with Fox during the World Series.

TBS seems to do somewhat of a better job (I can tolerate them, unlike Fox which has to put a damn commercial break anytime one of the players scratches his ass)...when they're not making typos on the graphics of course:

"Candlestick Park, where the 49ers play, is in the southeastern corner of the city and AT&T Park, where the Giants play, is in the northeastern part of the city.Buck plans to arrive by cable car at AT&T Park after calling the football Giants' game."

Sorry but wrong. Candlestick is in the extreme Southeast part of the city but AT&T would still be considered the Southwest part of the city.

Too bad his cable car's wire didn't snap and sending it careening down the hill towards the harbor, slamming into a class of 4th graders on a field trip before breaking through the guardrails and into the water.

LemSkroob:Too bad his cable car's wire didn't snap and sending it careening down the hill towards the harbor, slamming into a class of 4th graders on a field trip before breaking through the guardrails and into the water.

LemSkroob:Too bad his cable car's wire didn't snap and sending it careening down the hill towards the harbor, slamming into a class of 4th graders on a field trip before breaking through the guardrails and into the water.

But not before crashing through a giant piece of glass being carried across the road and getting caught in one of those giant dragon floats.

gmacbeth:"Candlestick Park, where the 49ers play, is in the southeastern corner of the city and AT&T Park, where the Giants play, is in the northeastern part of the city.Buck plans to arrive by cable car at AT&T Park after calling the football Giants' game."

Sorry but wrong. Candlestick is in the extreme Southeast part of the city but AT&T would still be considered the Southwest part of the city.

Someone get a map to these people.

Dude, AT&T Park (like Candlestick), is on the San Francisco Bay. I mean, right on the Bay, so close that deep homers to right can end up in the Bay. The San Francisco Bay borders the east side of the peninsula, the Pacific Ocean borders the west side. AT&T Park is most definitely on the east edge of San Francisco. You're right that it's not really the northeast part of the city--that would be the North Beach area, Fisherman's Wharf, etc., but it's most definitely not on the west side.